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NEC NEAX 2000 IPS 10u
The NEC 2000 IPS 10u has been around for nearly 15 years now. Originally available in wall-mounted or floor-standing configuration, it was later rack-mountable, which most people chose to do despite the expense of the brackets!
Although the chassis has 12+ slots inside, you could only mount line/trunk cards in slots 00 to 07 – as these really were the only cabled-out slots. You could sometimes get away with certain cards in slots 08+ but that’s another story!
The chassis was always very reliable, with a strong PSU (Power Supply Unit), had no moving parts and generated very little heat. All these points are reasons a lot of people refer to the 2000 IPS as ‘bulletproof’!
The 10u chassis for the 2000 IPS has gone through a number of name & aesthetic changes – originally called the NEAX 7400 2000 IVS (Integrated Voice System), and with grey front covers, the system was later changed into the NEAX 7400 2000 IPS (Internet Protocol Server) with blue covers. Lastly in the UK, at least, when the system was licensed to Philips (and completely ran by Philips for a short while), the system was renamed again to the SOPHO IPS and came in horrible white covers.
You can read more about the systems architecture of the 10u 2000 IPS here!
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